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Celebrating Over 90 Years of
Service

On September 9th, 2011 the Swift Current Kiwanis
Club celebrated its 90th Anniversary.

Chartered in 1921 as the 513th club of Kiwanis
International and sponsored by the Moose Jaw Kiwanis Club, the 51 charter
members of Swift Current took up the cause of serving their community and the
children of the world. Early days saw
help given to families for needs such as dental work, eyeglasses, cod liver
oil, tonsil operations, and even graduation gowns, while today’s organization
fills a much broader and varied mandate.

During the last 90 years the Kiwanis Club has helped to
establish Kiwanis Park, the Kiwanis Ball Diamonds, and the Kiwanis Skate Park. And from 1924 until the 1970’s a Kiwanis Bathing Station was built and supervised on the creek at Elmwood Park. These are just a few of
the accomplishments the club has achieved over the past 90 years.

Other projects the club has championed include: community
talent shows; horticultural shows; an Air Cadet Band; a Junior Baseball League;
working to bring 911 service to SW Saskatchewan; encouraging organ donations;
constructing a kiosk on the Chinook Pathway; organizing the July 1 Parade for a
number of years; completing numerous renovations at Crisis Services and
Canadian Mental Health facilities, as well as assisting the Drug Task Force
with it’s mandate.

Over the years, Kiwanis donations raised through their
yearly apple drive and Christmas tree sales have gone to: local bursaries, free
swimming for children, Babysitting and Cybersafe Courses at Great Plains
College, the annual Youth Leadership Conference, the Summer Fun Program, as
well as the much popular and ever-present Halloween inspired Spookerama event
which was introduced to Swift Current in 1978.

An integral part of Swift Current’s dedicated volunteer
force, over the years Kiwanis members have helped to: deliver Meals on Wheels, conduct
Highway Cleanups, flip burgers at the Relay for Life events, the Swift Current
Comprehensive High School year end BBQ, and for 4-H clubs at the local Fair. They sell tickets and conduct the annual
Crisis Services Duck Derby, enjoy Fun Olympics with residents at the Palliser,
help at Blood Donor Clinics, and brighten the days of hospital patients and local
seniors through the Kiwanis Caring Clowns.
The reach of the efforts of the Swift Current Kiwanis club
has also extended internationally through Kiwanis International projects which
have included a drive to eradicate Iodine Deficiency Disorder in Third World
countries and the current drive to defeat maternal and neonatal tetanus.

Looking to the future, the Swift Current
Kiwanis club has begun new efforts aimed at instilling

the next generation with
a passion for volunteering.

Through
their new youth-oriented clubs known as K-Kids for elementary aged children and
Key Club for middle schools, the club is hoping that by exposing student’s to
the benefits of volunteering at an early age, they will be more likely to join
service clubs such as Kiwanis, once they’ve reached adulthood, and continue the proud tradition of Kiwanis here in Swift Current.